My wife is looking after some land at the front of our lot, and she's got permission to grow fruit and veg. 2500 Sm so she has divided it up so our neighbors can grow whatever. Wife planted some corn, spinach, water spinach and much more. I told her the goats will eat them all but she knows best. Today she went to have a look and YEP the goat got in and ate all her corn plants and water spinach, She complained to the goat owner but they are not bothered it's not just one they have a herd of goats. She and her friends have worked very hard growing stuff, putting a fence of old fishing net all around the lot but the goats still get in. And I now some of the neighbors will have pilferage some vegetables very early in the morning.
Yep. Two more goats on the property yesterday, they ate some of the other guys vegetables. They were angry and one of them said I will kill the goat and eat it. It needs a proper fence, the goats are strong and fast, my dogs will chase them but when they catch up to the goats they will attack the dogs. lol
Actually, been offered to buy a goat from them probably something wrong with it. And from another guy wanted to sell me a young cow, Saw it today grazing in a field (it's a Bull) If It's the some one.
I am fairly sure that some of the best curries I ever had back in the 1970s were goat and not what was on the menu as lamb, of course in a curry mutton is far better than lamb so that is also a possibility.
I had come across this older thread today and have something to add here; Growing Vegetables can be done easily there everything grows so fast including the weeds, however there are ways around this. Using a form of a polytunnel covered in shade netting on the south side of it (most plants DO NOT like direct sunlight) an ordinary garden net to the rest, will keep many of the pests at bay, using raised beds built in CHB's which are about the only thing they are good for anyway, takes away the back breaking work of weeding, especially if they are filled with a good loose growing medium with some added course sand, growing plants with this method allows for less spacing between them. This does require some initial financial investment to have this constructed, but the prices there in PH for Vegetables is verging on criminal, working smart with this and getting more than one crop a year there in PH it would not take all that long to pay for itself. Keeping a few Rabbits could go hand in glove with the above method using their droppings for fertilizer, they can be fed quite cheaply there using Napier grass, Banana leaves and the excess green tops from root vegetables produced in the Tunnel, providing the beds are above 2ft high a couple of Rabbits could live inside the tunnel. This is so easy not requiring a lot of work and so rewarding to do, going 100% organic is easily possible with this method if that is your thing?
Same thing happened to my wife's Brother in Law... had a nice patch of vegetables and then the scumbag neighbour let their goat out on it... Seriously, some Filipino's simply cannot stand their neighbours trying to raise themselves up or having something they don't. In the UK we play Keeping up with the Jones here it's more like Keeping you down with the de la Cruzs...
